Blog About Twitter

Both Twitter and Blackboard are ways to communicate and have a discussion. Both Twitter and Blackboard allows faculty to communicate and update students. However, Twitter is more current and easier to access while Blackboard is more set and less flexible. If using Twitter, discussions are limited to 140 characters. Therefore sometimes this might not be enough to get a point across. Blackboard allows students to attach files or type as long of a discussion they want. Unlike Twitter, Blackboard has threads which creates an organized way to show all the discussion under one area, while Twitter it's all over the place and the only way to find a tweet is by hashtags.

I think in class discussions are more effective to discuss. It's more face to face and sometimes ideas are more spontaneous. Sometimes ideas are bounced off from one person to another, and it allows people to build their communication skills. It's better for the students and teachers to talk to each other because sometimes people are not who they seem behind the computer screen. The downside is that not everyone will participate, like the more shy people or the less outspoken ones.